Threats and Challenges to the West Pokalova, Elena creator author. text sz 2020 monographic eng x, 242 pages : 22 cm This book examines the challenges foreign fighter returnees from Syria and Iraq pose to Western countries. The book analyzes the major approaches implemented by Western countries in response to foreign fighter returnees, discusses the prosecution of returnees, and evaluates the corresponding challenges of prison radicalization. The returnee challenge -- Foreign fighters in Syria and Iraq: aberration from history or history repeated? -- Foreign fighters after the conflict ends -- Foreign fighter returnees from Syria and Iraq -- Dealing and the challenge: responses to foreign fighters and foreign fighter returnees -- Prosecution of foreign fighter returnees -- Women, jihad, and female returnees -- Child returnees -- Moving forward -- Islamist terrorist attacks in the west, 1990-2019. adult Elena Pokalova Includes index Terrorists Radicalism Terrorism Religious aspects Islam 363.325 9783030314774 PPAK 210117 20210118094921.0 eng